Miscellany One by Blishen Edward Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with removable plastic covered clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Includes line drawings and colour plates. Jacket is lightly marked, and edges are creased and nicked. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is slightly cocked, and page block is tanned and blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. large 8vo. original paper covered pictorial boards, pink cloth spine, gilt lettering near fine in unclipped same illus. Brian Wildsmith dw also near fine 202 pp illusd. b&w line drawings throughout + 8 cold plates - as called for, v clean tight no inscriptions, a book for every young reader: short stories by well-known writers ranging from a tale of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff to a story of the "Mersey Look " by Eric Allen + articles . poems.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first Impression. [4], 202pp, eight colour plates. Quarter-bound in pink cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Light bumping to lower edges. Small stain on top text block edge. Signature binding. Endpapers just starting to tan. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very, very light shelf wear, not price clipped. Dust jacket protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. "Short stories by well-known writers ranging from a tale of Roman Britain by Rosemary Ratcliff to a story of the 'Mersey Look' by Eric Allen." Colour plates and numerous black and white line drawings by well-known children's book artists in text throughout.

Condition: FINE. First US printing. An anthology of short stories and poems for children by then living authors, primarily British, including Rosemary Sutcliff, Juliana Ewing, Gillian Avery, Hans Baumann (several selections), Frederick Grice, Andrew Salkey (2 stories), and others. Illustrated with 8 color plates and line drawings by various artists, including Brian Wildsmith, Charles Keeping, Victor G. Ambrus, Jean Canter, William Papas and more. 202 pp Dust jacket art by Brian Wildsmith. Fine in coral cloth boards in a near fine dustjacket (price of 7.95 present).

Pp. [vi]+202, 8 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette and text illustrations; med. 8vo; cloth backed pictorial papered boards, top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised, the spine cloth slightly soiled at extremities; price-clipped dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. *Collection of short stories and poems for children by writers including Rosemary Sutcliff, Gillian Avery and Hans Baumann; illustrated by Brian Wildsmith, Charles Keeping, Victor Ambus, a.o.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated. First American edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An attractive, well preserved copy.